Every once in a while though, PS Plus surprises with some chuffing great games being made available. February, is one of those months.

After telling a gritty tale of crime in Max Payne, venturing into the supernatural in Alan Wake, and turning up the weirdness dial to 11 in Control, Remedy Entertainment has a new game in development that’s unlike anything else that the studio has ever done before. Primarily because this next chapter from one of the oldest gaming houses is going to be free to play.

Microsoft has a few ace offerings being added to its Game Pass service, a smattering of games that will consume your hours and finally allow you to fuse with your chair in an unholy union of fibers and butt.

Alan Wake makes his official debut in Control in full force, delivering a very large helping of lore and storytelling that goes down great with the overall game experience. If only he had a brought a small side of new gameplay mechanics as well, because the formula remains pretty much the same.

If you pick up Control Ultimate Edition, you’ll get the base game, The Foundation DLC and its upcoming slice of Alan Wake-centric content in the form of All Elite Wrestling AWE. That upcoming DLC drop will expand on the idea of all of Remedy’s games existing in a shared universe, which gives me hope that we’ll finally see a big budget version of My Lords and Ladies.

If you’ve been itching for a reason to hop back into Remedy’s superb action game, then here you go! As many of you expected, Control is venturing into the realm of Alan Wake, which will kick off on August 27 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. You’ll be exploring the Investigations Sector of The Oldest House, which just so happens to be infested with the same darkness that plagued the infamous author all those years ago.

The BAFTA awards kicked off from the palatial estate of comedian Dara Ó Briain’s living room, with acceptance speeches being delivered via Zoom conference videos that made for hell of a strange night.

Control is one of my favourite games this year. While I’m a little bummed that it didn’t fare as well at the Game Awards (or our own awards) as I’d have liked, that doesn’t take away from how much of a blast I had playing through its twisting and winding brutalist architecture, trying to piece together just what the fuck was actually going on. That it made me feel like a damned superhero was even better.